Find out which people, entities and ships are designated or specified under regulations made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, and why.
New UK sanctions regimes came fully into force under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (the Sanctions Act) at 11pm on 31 December 2020. The regulations establishing these regimes apply in the whole of the UK, including in Northern Ireland.
Some of these regimes contain sanctions measures (for instance asset-freezes or travel bans) which apply in respect of persons or ships which have been designated or specified.
The UK sanctions list
The UK government publishes the UK sanctions list, which provides details of those designated under regulations made under the Sanctions Act. The list also details which sanctions measures apply to these persons or ships, and in the case of UK designations, provides a statement of reasons for the designation.
HM Treasury’s Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation provides a consolidated list of persons and organisations under financial sanctions, including those under the Sanctions Act and other UK legislation.
Find out:
When the UK government makes a decision to make, vary or revoke a designation or ship specification, it will update the UK sanctions list in accordance with the publicity provisions in the relevant sanctions regulations.
For further information on transport sanctions: contact the Department for Transport on transportsanctions@dft.gov.uk
For general information on sanctions: contact the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s Sanctions Unit on sanctions@fcdo.gov.uk
Published 6 July 2020
Last updated 1015 November 2021
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Eight new listings under the Nicaragua regime.
Three new listings under the Yemen regime.
30 September 2021
Delistings under the Syria regime and one amendment under the Myanmar regime.
23 September 2021
Publication to correct the UK Sanctions List due to a technical error
22 September 2021
One delisting under Iraq regime.
9 September 2021
A number of delistings from the Iraq regime.
7 September 2021
One delisting under ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida regime.
2 September 2021
New listings under the Myanmar regime.
20 August 2021
Seven new listings under the chemical weapons regime.
12 August 2021
One delisting under the Syria regime.
9 August 2021
A new designation and variations to seven existing designations under the Belarus regime.
2 August 2021
A correction to the name of one of the regulations.
22 July 2021
New designations under the global anti-corruption regime.
21 July 2021
One new designation under the Belarus regime.
16 July 2021
Amendments to one listing under the GHR regime.
12 July 2021
Amendments made under Belarus and Syria regimes.
8 July 2021
One delisting made under Belarus regime and one delisting made under Syria regime.
1 July 2021
Delisting made under Iraq regime and one amendment made under Russia regime.
25 June 2021
One amendment made under Belarus regime.
24 June 2021
This update corrects a technical error that arose from publication on 22 June.
22 June 2021
This update corrects a technical error that arose when we uploaded the new designations under the Myanmar and Belarus regimes on 21 June.
21 June 2021
New designations under Myanmar and Belarus regimes and one amendment under Russia regime.
18 June 2021
New designation under ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida and one amendment under Russia regime.
17 May 2021
New designation under Myanmar regime.
13 May 2021
New designations and one amendment under Libya regime.
30 April 2021
Amendments made to designations in Libya regime.
29 April 2021
Previous listings revoked under the Burma regime. New designations made under the Myanmar regime.
26 April 2021
New designations made under the global anti-corruption sanctions regime.
16 April 2021
Designations delisted under Iraq regime.
7 April 2021
Designation amended under ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida regime.
6 April 2021
Designation delisted under Central African Republic regime, designation amended under Yemen regime.
1 April 2021
New designation made under Global Human Rights regime. Amendments made to information under some regimes.
25 March 2021
New designation made under Global Human Rights regime. Amendments made to information under some regimes.
24 March 2021
Amendments made to information for some regimes.
22 March 2021
New designations added under the Global Human Rights sanctions regime.
15 March 2021
New designations added under Syria regime. Information for some designations has been amended.
8 March 2021
Removed a person listed under the Sudan regime.
2 March 2021
Three new designations under the Somalia regime.
26 February 2021
A new listing under the Yemen regime and minor changes to 2 other designations.
25 February 2021
Six new listings under the Burma sanctions regime, and some factual updates to other designations.
18 February 2021
New designations added under Belarus and Burma regimes. Information for some designations has been amended.
1 February 2021
New designations added under Zimbabwe regime. Information for some designations has been amended.
20 January 2021
Information for some designations has been amended.
19 January 2021
Removal of designations from Iraq regime. Information for some designations has been amended.
8 January 2021
Information for some designations has been amended.
31 December 2020
The UK's sanctions framework has changed.
10 December 2020
New designations added under the Global Human Rights Sanctions regime in response to serious human rights violations in Venezuela, Russia, The Gambia and Pakistan
29 September 2020
New designations added under the Global Human Rights sanctions regime in response to serious human rights violations in Belarus.